Hillary Wants More War in Syria

Never one to miss a chance to kick a war into higher gear, and get America stuck deeper into a quagmire, Hillary Clinton again today on ABC News called for a larger U.S. military roll in Syria.

But at the same time, the ever-word-parsing side of Hillary declined to say the United States is “at war” with ISIS, during an interview on This Week With George Stephanopoulos.

“We’re not winning, but it’s too soon to say that we are doing everything we need to do,” Clinton said. “We have to fight them in the air, we have to fight them on the ground, and we have to fight them on the Internet, and we have to do everything we can with our friends and partners to protect ourselves,” she added.

When asked if it was time to declare war on them, Clinton responded, “I think we need a new update of military authorization, the AUMF [The Authorization for Use of Military Force], which was passed after the attack on 9/11.” When pressed further, Clinton continued: “Well, war is a very legal term as you know so well.”

“I think what we want to do is make sure we have every tool at our disposal to destroy their would-be caliphate in Syria and in Iraq. Number two, do everything we can to dismantle this very effective, virtual, jihadist network that they are using on the Internet. And number three, do whatever is necessary to protect us here at home,” Clinton said.

Clinton also had sharp words for Ted Cruz, who yesterday said, “If I am elected president we will utterly destroy ISIS. We won’t weaken them. We won’t degrade them. We will utterly destroy them. We will carpet bomb them into oblivion.”

“That’s an easy thing to say, you know, he’s never had any responsibility for trying to figure out you know who the bad guys are, and who innocent civilians are,” Clinton said.